A couple of us at Olson Zaltman have had a long-running, uber-nerdy debate about whether music should be considered a Deep Metaphor.

So a recent study really strikes a chord.

The New York Timeschimes in on a study from the Journal of Neuroscience that suggests that adults who played a musical instrument as children for as little as four years respond faster to speech sounds than people with no musical training. This holds even if the person in question hasn’t picked up an instrument for decades.